Word: ets
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Naval Limitations Parley at Geneva (TIME, June 27 et seq.) took on last week the character of a hot and personal duel over a blunt question: "Shall the present voluntary inferiority of the U. S. Navy to the British Navy be perpetuated by a binding treaty?" This question was haggled over in terms of cruisers, last week, because the cruiser is the strongest naval arm which the Parley was called to consider. Because negotiations proceeded wholly in private, last week, it was necessary to piece together from unofficial sources the guiding concepts which each delegation was striving to round...
Future of Nation. In the teachers' trust lies the perpetuity of the U. S. They keep alive George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, et aL, for rising generations. So said President Francis G. Blair...
Thus, last week, read a sentence in the Parisian Royalist newspaper L'Action Francaise. The writer, famed, impudent, irrepressible Editor Leon Daudet was still in secret hiding last week (TIME, June 13 et seq.) defying the French police to discover whither he had escaped from the Prison Sante...
...recent World Economic Conference in Geneva had recommended such tariff reductions (TIME, May 16, et seq.). But that conference had had a political aspect. Members of it had been hog-tied with national aspirations, with unneighborly exasperations...
...Born in 1810, she read Shakespeare, Cervantes, Moliere at the ase of 8 ; attended Groton School; taught in Bronson Alcott's school; became a feminist, Transcendentalist, brilliant conversationalist and essayist; reviewed books of Carlyle, Browning, Tennyson, Longfellow, Poe, Lowell, et al., for the New York Tribune under Horace Greeley; was feted in England; married a dashing Italian; experienced and chronicled the Roman Revolution. Returning home, aged 40, she was shipwrecked and drowned off Fire Island...